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THE OLD SAYING, "Boys will be boys" has long since become obsolete in
schools across the length and breadth of this country. Unknown to most
parents, there are federally-financed programs to prevent boys from acting
the way boys have always acted before.

The things done by those who have taken on the role of changing boys range
from forbidding them from running and jumping during recess to having them
wear dresses and pretend to be girls or women in the classroom. Whatever the
particular mix of things done at a particular school, it is accompanied by a
barrage of propaganda prepared by radical feminists for nationwide
distribution with the blessing -- and the money -- of the U. S. Department
of Education.

The people who are doing this see their role as changing your children into
the kinds of people they want them to be -- not the kind of people you want
them to be. Parents who somehow learn what is going on in school and object
are told that "studies prove" that this is the right thing to do, that
"specialists" and "experts" know more about this than parents can possibly
know.

A newly published book titled "The War Against Boys"
by Christina Hoff
Sommers not only reveals what these brainwashing programs are doing, it
shows that the so-called "studies" on which these programs are based are
either hopelessly inadequate or just plain non-existent. Christina Hoff
Sommers is a scholar at the Manhattan Institute and she not only sees
through the fraudulent claims of the radical feminists, she is familiar with
real studies -- both here and overseas -- which show the direct opposite of
what the brainwashers claim.

The people who are promoting the anti-male agenda are experts at nothing
except manipulating the media and snowing gullible educators, who are more
interested in puffing themselves up as "agents of social change" than in
teaching children. Boys in elementary school, or even kindergarten, have
been punished for being politically incorrect toward girls.

One nine-year-old boy who reached for a piece of fruit in a school lunch
line and accidentally brushed against a girl was arrested, hand-cuffed and
fingerprinted for sexual harassment, even though the charges later had to be
dropped. A boy of three was punished in school for hugging another child.

The feminist dogma is that such things are precursors of wife-beating, rape
and other crimes of men against women -- and so must be nipped in the bud.
According to these propagandists, 4 million American women are beaten to
death by men every year. That is four times as many American women as die
from all causes put together. The actual number of women killed by men is
less than one percent of what was claimed.

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However inaccurate and irresponsible the propaganda, it is very effective
in creating the kind of paranoia that gets brainwashing programs and
draconian punishment of boys into the schools. Staggering as it is to
realize that schools are using materials and creating rules based on sheer
dogma and outright lies, the tragic fact is that such tactics have been
common in totalitarian countries throughout this century. What is uncommon
is their pervasiveness in America over the past generation.

Radical feminists apply the old Hitler-Goebbels doctrine that the people
will believe any lie, if it is big enough and told often enough and loud
enough. Intimidation and retribution against all who dare to disagree is
likewise as much a part of the new agenda as it was in the old totalitarian
regimes.

"The War Against Boys" shows where the propagandists have gotten their
facts wrong -- where they have any facts at all. But the brainwashers' goals
are not accuracy but power. In those terms, they have been an incredible
success. They are no more interested in facts than any other power-seekers.
Did Hitler study genetics?

Christina Hoff Sommers writes not only as a scholar but as the mother of
two boys. Her book is must-reading, not only for parents of boys in school,
but for all parents, and should inform any responsible citizen and voter who
is concerned about American education.

Tragically, radical feminists are just one of many reckless zealots who
have turned our schools into ideological indoctrination centers, instead of
places for children to get an education in basic skills. One of the reasons
American children do so badly in international tests of academic skills is
that our schools are preoccupied with politically correct social
crusades.